commodities or anthropomorphised? Digest Number 251

[Guest guest]

What is interesting is that many people seem to hold to both views

(animals as commodities and animals as anthropomorphised)at the same

time without realising the contradiction...

 

Ie, many people seem perfectly happy to eat factory farmed packaged

meat bought from the supermarket, whilst at the same time cooing

over 'cute' calves in the field spotted from the train window, etc.

 

Perhaps both behaviours spring from our alienated relationships with

natural systems and ecologies.

 

, " Jo " <Heartwork@b...> wrote:

> Very true Angie

>

> I hear the cows for days after their calves are taken away - it is

not

> pleasant.

>

> Jo

>

> > I agree with you that they should be able to be themselves .

Seems

> obvious

> > to me but so is the fact that eg mammals would suffer as much as

I would

> > the loss of an offspring .Most human beings don't seem to

understand that

>

>

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